Arts Management and Marketing Blog

Paris The Luminous Years, explores this unique moment in Paris from 1905 to 1930, decisive years for our contemporary culture, when an international group including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Igor Stravinsky, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein, Vaslav Nijinsky and Aaron Copland, among numerous others, revolutionized the direction of the modern arts.

Lanfranchi’s Memorial Discotheque was Sydney’s favourite artist-run space, situated on the second level of an inner city warehouse. Lanfranchi’s doubled as a residence and unauthorised performance venue for five years.

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Swiss curator & art critic asks questions about the concept of exhibitions and audience: Could we realise a group show in which artists would not be given space, but some kind of temporality?

The funding landscape changed dramatically because Arts Council England, in common with other quangos, was given 30% less money to distribute. Rather than allocate smaller subsidies to all regularly funded clients, the Arts Council chose a reduced group of National Portfolio Organisations for continued support.